Sister Jean
DEAD AT 106
Revealed
Loyola-Chicago legend Sister Jean — who grew to become a nationwide sensation because the chaplain and superfan of the college’s males’s basketball staff — has died.
Loyola College Chicago introduced in an announcement Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt handed away on Thursday.
Mark C. Reed — the college’s president — says, “In lots of roles at Loyola over the course of greater than 60 years, Sister Jean was a useful supply of knowledge and beauty for generations of scholars, school, and employees.”
He continues … ““Whereas we really feel grief and a way of loss, there may be nice pleasure in her legacy. Her presence was a profound blessing for our whole neighborhood and her spirit abides in hundreds of lives. In her honor, we will aspire to share with others the love and compassion Sister Jean shared with us.”
The college additionally says visitation and funeral preparations will probably be introduced quickly.
Sister Jean grew to become a family identify throughout Loyola-Chicago’s inconceivable run to the Last 4 in 2018 — capturing nationwide consideration all through the match. The Ramblers’ Cinderella story finally got here to an finish with a loss to Michigan.
Simply final month, SJ retired from her longtime position as the varsity’s minister and males’s basketball chaplain. She confronted well being points earlier this yr, which stored her from attending the Ramblers’ NIT sport towards Chattanooga.
Sister Jean started her instructing profession at Mundelein School in 1961 … and joined Loyola-Chicago when the 2 faculties merged in 1991. She took on a job with the boys’s basketball staff a couple of years later.
She was 106.
RIP
